Oxygen Vacancy Induced Flat Phonon Mode at FeSe/SrTiO3 interface

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Xie, Yun ^a   Cao, Hai Yuan ^a   Zhou, Yang ^a   Chen, Shiyou ^b   Xiang, Hongjun ^a   Gong, Xin Gao ^a  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

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EID: 84931281607     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep10011     Document Type: Article

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